Full Lore Recap Before Reality Fracture’s Multiverse-Shattering Story Drops

Last updated on August 20, 2026

The Theorist, Jace Beleren | Illustration by Ekaterina Burmak

With second breakfast settling in our stomachs from The Hobbit, it’s time to turn our eyes to the next destination on the Road stretching forward: Reality Fracture, which will have its first story drop on August 31, confirmed by Paige aka TheMaverickGirl on Bluesky:

As the conclusion to several years’ worth of story, Reality Fracture needs more background knowledge than the average set, so here’s everything you need to know before reading the first chapters!

Outlaws of Thunder Junction

Jace Reawakened | Illustration by Cristi Balanescu

Outlaws of Thunder Junction tidily cleaned up Kellan’s story and started this arc with the same event: Oko’s heist on the Fomori Vault.

While the story presented the heist as orchestrated by Ashiok, we learned they were actually Jace disguised as Ashiok. He stayed a step ahead of Elesh Norn and protected himself and Vraska from phyresis, as explained in the two-part epilogue, which also revealed Jace’s motivation: He and Vraska view the Omenpaths as an existential threat to the Multiverse that can only result in war, and need closing.

Loot, Exuberant Explorer | Illustration Arif Wijaya

To that end, he hired Oko’s crew to crack the vault he learned of while working for Tezzeret and the Infinite Consortium so he could retrieve Loot, a child of unclear origin with a mental map of the Multiverse, including the Omenpaths.

Bloomburrow

Ral, Crackling Wit | Illustration by Rudy Siswanto

Jace, Loot, and Vraska didn’t appear in Bloomburrow but they were referenced often, primarily through prophecies from Helga, Skittish Seer, and the planeswalker Ral Zarek.

Ral, a friend and sometimes foe of Jace’s, was caught up in the Thunder Junction heist and sought answers. While he didn’t catch up to Jace here, he was given Helga’s prophecy regarding Jace:

“The kings in the dark will return. The mage in blue will bring about the end.” Bloomburrow – “Episode 5: Nightfall in Fountainport”

Duskmourn: House of Horror

Don't Make a Sound | Illustration by Zezhou Chen

Much like Bloomburrow, Jace was more of a tangent within a story in Duskmourn: House of Horror, except he was present. While the greater story was focused on a rescue team tasked with saving Nashi, Jace needed to reconnect with Loot and Vraska, who were lost within the house. The story ends with the elder demon Valgavoth capturing Loot.

Aetherdrift

The Aetherspark | Illustration by Donato Giancola

Aetherdrift covers the Ghirapur Grand Prix, an interplanar race with The Aetherspark as a coveted price, and teams from many planes participate—including Duskmourn, whose team, led by Winter, Cursed Rider, plans to use Loot to cheat.

This story brings Jace and Vraska—who set up a plan to sabotage the end of the race and retrieve Loot by helping reinstate the fascist government Jace helped topple in Kaladesh block—into conflict with Chandra. The chaos of the race sees Chandra unite with Loot.

Unstoppable Plan | Illustration by Borka Pindado

At the end of the race, Jace effectively used Mind Control on the other team leaders to attack Chandra and retrieve Loot. Everything was further complicated by a dragon attack, and the angelic Elspeth fighting it.

Aetherdrift represents an important turning point, as Jace’s actions here (helping the government he overthrew, using mind magics he had disavowed, attacking allies and friends) illustrate his decline into the villainous.

Tarkir: Dragonstorm

Stillness in Motion | Illustration by Kai Carpenter

Another storyline, less related to FRA, established that the dragonstorms of Tarkir were moving through the Omenpaths. Tarkir: Dragonstorm focuses on this, with Narset and Elspeth seeking the source of the worsening dragonstorms.

Ugin, Eye of the Storms | Illustration by Joshua Raphael

Jace appears without Vraska, openly taking advantage of Loot with his mind magic to find the Meditation Realm, where the elder dragons Ugin and Nicol Bolas slumber. Jace seizes the gem from between Ugin’s horns, proclaiming that it will let him fix everything wrong with the Multiverse. The Realm collapses, suggesting that Jace was left for dead, though the readers knew better.

Edge of Eternities & Lorwyn Eclipsed

Neither Edge of Eternities nor Lorwyn Eclipsed had strong ties to the FRA story. ECL introduced five Strixhaven students, most notable Tam, Mindful First-Year, who are important in the next story, and it ended with Liliana meeting a pure white version of herself.

Secrets of Strixhaven

Archaic's Agony | Illustration by Joshua Raphael

Secrets of Strixhaven found a plane in chaos because the archaics, great, magical giants, are behaving unpredictably. The five students introduced in ECL reunite after an archaic attacks Lluwen, Exchange Student and kidnaps the oracle Jadzi.

Oracle's Restoration | Illustration by Elliot Lang

Ajani and Chandra come into conflict, as Chandra—still injured from Jace’s mental assault in DFT—is certain Jace is responsible for the archaic’s rampage, while Ajani thinks he’s dead. They fight several times over this, as Jadzi tries healing a wounded archaic.

Banishing Betrayal | Illustration by Craig Elliott

In the end, we learn that the archaic’s turmoil comes from Jace attempting to rewrite the past (the archaics are temporal anomalies) and Tam kidnaps Jadzi to help Jace. The story ends with the Strixhaven students and the planeswalkers battered, and Tam feeling guilty as Jace begins to “fix” the Multiverse.

Enter: Reality Fracture, dropping this October, with its first story landing late August.